Judge — March 1938 — page 49: what you’re looking at

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sa If | Dare Say So (Continued from page 8) read the manuscript it was titled And So to War, but that may be changed to something like How The President is Getting Us Into War. Anyway, it's good, breezy, brief, and it should be off the press about as soon as this . . . Syphilis is now a favorite topic on the radio. I wonder whether the broadcast- ing company that barred HuGH JoHN- son’s talk about the disease only a few months ago doesn’t feel like knocking its head on the JOHNSON doorstep and broadcasting the sound as a public ac- knowledgment of stupidity . . . Boys and girls in college, watch television and radio facsimile broadcasting. There'll be some new professions for you there, and the time to take an in- terest in proceedings is now... When the news services can televise a battle from the front into your living room, will any of you raise your boys to be soldiers? Well, not unless jobs are scarce . . . Cited for the Temperance Medal: the New York brewers who, by short measute, gypped drinkers out of thirteen million dollars’ worth of beer in five years . . . OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD protests against our lining up to defend Communism, “and especially the bloody brand of one JoseF STALIN.” I know I'm old, because I can remember when they used to mob VILLARD as a red. Jim Farcey gets $75,000 on the nail for his autobiography. For that much he ought to tell the inside story of the fly. ing mail tragedy, when he dropped so many soldiers out of the sky and didn’t get the mail through . . . and there should be a new commemorative stamp with each copy of the book .. . The Oxford Group got out the most stream. lined magazine, Rising Tide, ever issued for religion. Those boys know publicity . . . and religious ideas need some in- ent ink- spilling... HENRY MENCKEN is showing ‘em he's a prac- tical editor, too, down on the Baltimore Sun... and can you remember what magazines were like in this country be- fore MENCKEN? . . . When the Jap war minister admitted in Parliament that a war is going on in China, the world stood still and the presses roared. But good diplomats the world over de- cided to forget the offense on the ground that the poor fellow must have been talking in his sleep, so peace again hovers... I am mad at good old Bitty PHELPs because he passed up THomas Wotre when he picked the ten greatest living American writers. Horizontal 1. A dolt ted by an M. S. Go to a cat. 9. aoe same to hitb t 14. How to say “come hither” in any language. 15. Cold-blooded adolescent. ‘ 16. What to do before you start over again. 17, Tall talesman. 18. Lets you down like an elevator. 20. Aquila’s brightest. star, 22. Lot of Reels with an idea, 23. Water leaves it cold; alcobol melts it down! 24. Collects in the country spends in town, 26. 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